[fpc-pascal] Easier fpmake

[Tomas Hajny]

On 22 Aug 12, at 19:03, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:


Hi Michael,

> As you know, FPC uses fpmake to compile everything in packages.
> 
> As I've been steadily improving fcl-passrc for fpdoc, 
> (it's now almost on par with the compiler, barring errors and assembler statetements), 
> I created a small tool pas2fpm which takes as input a bunch of unit names, 
> and outputs a ready-to-go fpmake.pp file.
> 
> This means that
>    pas2fpcm -o fpmake.pp *.pp
> is all you need to create a fpmake.pp file. (provided the shell expands
> wildcards)
> 
> It analyses the sources, and creates an fpmake file that contains all units,
> the units have the correct dependencies (it analyses that too) and sets the
> UseResourceStrings property.
> 
> If a particular source file is not compilable (parseable), 
> it will add it anyway, but with a comment.
> 
> The resulting fpmake.pp should compile and do what it needs to do.
> 
> The tool can be found in utils/pas2fpm.
> 
> I'd be pleased to hear of any comments or suggestions for improvement.

Like support for platforms where wildcards are not expanded by shell? 
;-)

Tomas